Thankyou so much for a fascinating history of the RPG world in Sweden. Very interesting indeed. I too remember the first time I saw a role-playing game book. I was captive as soon as I opened the pages.
We did have some small games in Finnish but nothing that broke through like DnD in Sweden. We had translations on D&D Mentzer edition, RQ, MERP, Cyberpunk etc. which were really popular. The most popular Finnish rpgs have been made in 2000s but it is hard to compete against international giants.
@@jukkasorsa2022 I also played Finnish translations of Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Paranoia but in the scene it all stopped suddenly. At some point in Finnish role-playing scene and scifi- and fantasy fandom using our own language became uncool. I had several friends when I was 15-18 that suddenly started thinking english language was cooler.
Very cool. I grew up during the same time in Brazil. And for us it was Vampire, Werewolf, Gurps, Shadowrun and a ton of AD&D 2nd as well before getting into 3rd. Was Vampire or other White Wolf games popular there as well? I never heard of Kult in Brazil. We did have some Brazilian games as well :)
Yes, I recall during the 90s that the Vampire games were very poular here as well. Attracted a lot of the goth crowd. :) I believe that Kult was translated into english but I do not remember who owned the license for the english version though. Could you tell me about some Brazilian games that were poular at this time? I think this subject is quite fascinating.
Great video. Neat to see such a chronology. and really cool that you have the originals still. btw I own the current version of KULT - it is by Helmgast now. (though internationally distributed by modiphius). and uses a different, better, system (based on pbta). (greetings from a German living in the UK and sadly too young for those eras. but still fascinating to learn.) Runequest had the Ducks first, I think? was that ever popular in Sverige? (i had some not so shiny time in the 90s in general)
Yes, the ducks were very popular. 😀 Did not know that they were present in Runequest. Maybe it Drakar&Demoner wasa morefaithful adapttion than I had thought.
Mahtavaa nähdä tällaista historiaa. Hyvässä kunnossa myös nuo kirjat teillä edelleen.
Surprisingly yes. We had to call all old friends and ask them to go through their closets.
Thankyou so much for a fascinating history of the RPG world in Sweden. Very interesting indeed. I too remember the first time I saw a role-playing game book. I was captive as soon as I opened the pages.
Nyt on kunnollista. 👍
Yay!
Achilles Wiggen on kyllä sellainen sarjakuva että siitä pitäisi olla oma roolipeli.
@@jonasmiekkamies HELL YES!
@@jonasmiekkamies Kari Leppänen is such a master.
Hei! Tämä oli todella mielenkiintoinen video! Minusta tuntuu, että suomalainen peliskene on vasta nyt heräämässä. Hyvää työtä!
Jees, tosi kiehtovaa settiä!
On ollut sama tunne pari vuotta.
Interesting - I would love to learn more of the finsih perspective. Was rpgs not that popular in the 80s and 90s as they were in Sweden?
We did have some small games in Finnish but nothing that broke through like DnD in Sweden. We had translations on D&D Mentzer edition, RQ, MERP, Cyberpunk etc. which were really popular. The most popular Finnish rpgs have been made in 2000s but it is hard to compete against international giants.
@@jukkasorsa2022 I also played Finnish translations of Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Paranoia but in the scene it all stopped suddenly. At some point in Finnish role-playing scene and scifi- and fantasy fandom using our own language became uncool. I had several friends when I was 15-18 that suddenly started thinking english language was cooler.
Very cool. I grew up during the same time in Brazil. And for us it was Vampire, Werewolf, Gurps, Shadowrun and a ton of AD&D 2nd as well before getting into 3rd. Was Vampire or other White Wolf games popular there as well? I never heard of Kult in Brazil. We did have some Brazilian games as well :)
Yes, I recall during the 90s that the Vampire games were very poular here as well. Attracted a lot of the goth crowd. :) I believe that Kult was translated into english but I do not remember who owned the license for the english version though.
Could you tell me about some Brazilian games that were poular at this time? I think this subject is quite fascinating.
Great video. Neat to see such a chronology. and really cool that you have the originals still.
btw I own the current version of KULT - it is by Helmgast now. (though internationally distributed by modiphius).
and uses a different, better, system (based on pbta).
(greetings from a German living in the UK and sadly too young for those eras. but still fascinating to learn.)
Runequest had the Ducks first, I think? was that ever popular in Sverige? (i had some not so shiny time in the 90s in general)
Yes, the ducks were very popular. 😀 Did not know that they were present in Runequest. Maybe it Drakar&Demoner wasa morefaithful adapttion than I had thought.
@@GooseHoly oh meant if Runequest was a thing over there. heh
and maybe :)
ducks are always cool
@@otakuofmine Hi. No Runequest - nobody knew about! :)
@@GooseHoly oh sad to hear, such a great game, especially now.
but thx for the answer :)